If no one else will say it, then I will: organizing is hard. If you struggle with keeping all of your things in order and…
If no one else will say it, then I will: organizing is hard. If you struggle with keeping all of your things in order and…
When I decided to make my passion for writing stories into a business, I wondered how long I had before someone gave me “the look.” If you work in a creative industry, you know the one. The raised eyebrows, pursed lips, and head tilt all point to one unspoken message: good luck, sucker.
We often tell children to follow their dreams. It’s a common theme in popular fiction, but it seems like few actually pull it off. Many people watch their dreams die slow deaths in the face of poisonous cynicism disguised as practicality. The dream seems too good to be true. There must be a catch. All too often, we decide that the whole idea is a catch – that only peolpe who are unstable, flaky, and flighty-as-pixies think the world will cooperate with their dreams, particularly if those dreams are artistic.